| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| “Reader, I married him.” | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 81%
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| “You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.” | “Still I Rise” | Maya Angelou | 77%
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| “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)” | “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in” | e.e. cummings | 65%
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| “You are your best thing.” | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 63%
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| “I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 60%
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| “Get busy living or get busy dying.” | “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” | Stephen King | 44%
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| “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 40%
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| “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 37%
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| “Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.” | “Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring” | John Berryman | 28%
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| “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | 26%
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